Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:28:54 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/22] HWPOISON: Intro (v5) |
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Russ Anderson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:29:34PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: >> I think you're wrong about killing processes decreasing >> reliability. Traditionally we always tried to keep things running if possible >> instead of panicing. > > Customers love the ia64 feature of killing a user process instead of > panicing the system when a user process hits a memory uncorrectable > error. Avoiding a system panic is a very good thing.
Sometimes (sometimes it's a very bad thing.)
However, the more fundamental thing is that it is always trivial to promote an error to a higher severity; the opposite is not true. As such, it becomes an administrator-set policy, which is what it needs to be.
-hpa
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